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Don't commit to main
Prevent accidental commits to a protected branch such as main.
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Security headers for lighttpd
How to configure your lighttpd website to have safe headers.
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Webroach - xroach for webpages
The story of webroach, how I created the HTML counterpart of the xroach linux application. It is open source, so you too can have some roaches roaming your website.
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Restaurants in Berlin
A list of tasty restaurants in Berlin including their location and type of cuisine.
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Open GitHub when pushing a new branch
A trick to quickly create a pull request when pushing a new branch to remote by opening the repo in your browser.
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Non-art museums in Berlin
A list of non-art museums in Berlin I can recommend to visit. Short description, price, and location for each museum.
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Fighting html form bots
A tale of fighting spam bots abusing my contact form. A series of experiments led to a simple solution to stop the bots.
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Art museums in Berlin
A list of art museums in Berlin I can recommend to visit. Short description, price, and location for each museum.
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Scanning with a samsung 4600 in ubuntu
How to let Ubuntu recognize a Samsung SCX-4600 as a scanning device.
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UX by the numbers
A write-up about a scientific approach to UX decisions.
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Adding elastic site search
My experiences trying out elastic site search on my blog.
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What's in a name? Or how to validate a name field in Java.
How to do basic validation of a name in Java.
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How to include code in your web page
Short howto on presenting code snippets in an HTML page.
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Removing a div with Greasemonkey
How to remove an unwanted HTML element from a webpage using Greasemonkey.
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Firefox pro tips
A list of some Firefox tips and tricks I find useful to remember.
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Changing the alt-tab behaviour in Ubuntu
How to change alt-tabbing behavior in Ubuntu to something more useful than the default.
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Sending mail from a contact form
How I set up my contact form to send emails in a way that does not reveal my email address to the world.
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TODO, or not TODO
Rant about the uselessness of todo comments in source code.
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Resizing images on the command line
How to quickly resize an image on the linux command line using convert/ImageMagick.